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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:50 PM
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Day 1 in Massachusetts, the Gay Marriage State, and the Nation still alive
The right wing loonies were predicting the fall of the Nation. I'm waiting.:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
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jrthin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:53 PM
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1. No kidding. You mean
the sky didn't fall?
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callous taoboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:54 PM
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2. I feel all threatened....
and icky.

<sarcasm off>
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:14 PM
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8. Are you straight?
If you are, are you going to end your relationship and immediately enter into a gay civil union?
I know I'm going home right now to end my 9 year relationship, become a lesbian and begin practicing witchcraft.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:56 PM
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3. Not so fast
Do you think 9-11 could have been a divine pre-emptive retribution for gay marriage?

Just trying to think Bush and Ashcroft. It hurts.
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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:57 PM
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4. As I mentioned in another thread
In Cambridge, Mass., Phelps' Gods Hate Fags were out picketing gay marriage. Two of their placards were especially insane:

"Thank God for 911" and
"God blew up the shuttle"

Perhaps we are witnessing the decline of the nation, as evidence by Phelps and the government-approved torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners. Gay marriage is a ray of hope in a dark and evil right-wing era.
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:00 PM
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6. but there's a plus side to such placards
They make it abundantly clear who's "fringe" and who's "mainstream" on this issue.

"God blew up the shuttle" -- how timely and relevant! :eyes:
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:09 PM
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7. Are you shi**ing me. No wonder the news was light with the protesters.
The news I watch all but ignored any protetsers, short of just mentioning some were there.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:22 PM
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9. Phelps "God" seems even more fond of death and destruction
than he usually did, even in the OT. I suspect Phelps is actually worshipping an extra malignant manifestation of Kali. (My apologies to any worshippers of Kali who would like to point out her redeeming features.)
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:58 PM
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5. was in Northampton this morning
Northampton is one of the most gay-friendly Massachusetts towns. I was there this morning (albeit only briefly) and nothing unusual seemed to be going on.

That's the best part of all this -- after the initial excitement dies down, life for those of us not involved in a gay marriage will go on exactly as it always has. People will realize this, and the resistance will just disappear.
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truthspeaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:42 PM
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10. Ah, yes, the moral decay that comes from people who love each other
committing the spend the rest of their lives together. What is this nation coming to? Won't somebody please think of the children?
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phatkatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:44 PM
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11. NO! And this is my anniversary!
Seven years of heterosexual union ruined!!

Yeah, right.
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